happy birthday.
today is the day i turn 22.
most of my day was spent at bright vision hospital learning about care of patients in community hospital.. the day started w a laugh.. a joke abt dehan eating his breakfast in front of a "vegetarian food only" kinda sign haha...
then there was a table of frens sitting behind me laughing alot and lotsa of eye contact btw my cg mates suggestive of a conspiracy haaaa w little bits of info n high index of suspicion i had some insight into the surprise i was in for
anyway class ended at 4+ then we went for pingpong at jianhong's place haa they r all damn good.. only i damn cui :p haa
then off we went for dinner..
we ate at ah yat abalone restaurant.. saw lotsa 活海鲜! 2 crabs n 1 fish died because we looked at them hai.. but they were delicious.. we had this chinese table w 10 of us (cause gang has appeared!) sitting round a round table.. i felt abit like an old lady celebrating her 大寿 but haa the food was nice n i was really full aft tt... the company was good n there was wine tt felicia brought! thnx guys.. i had alot of fun n enjoyed myself.. hope u guys did.

my gang has always been my important friends and i'm gald they are all here today! huay let's celeb py's bdae w all of us together k
my cg.. haa as i've said time n again, i feel really lucky to b v this cg cause they are real fun n funny pple.. we always laugh over stuff jokes flying in the sky.. n postings are always so enjoyable w them ard.. thnx guys! (me n py are lucky tt all the 3 cgs we had so far are made up of really nice pple tt we can click w n haf fun w)

photos!

US! 10 of us having dinner tonight ;)

some of our dishes...

me n my birthday cake :)

my dearest gang!

boys in my cg...
girls in my cg... :)

cards i got this yr!　：）

(huay i got ur letter!)

presents! a medium sized bag :) a retro clock tt i realli liked n a personalised clipboard done by py tt i can bring to postings to use :)

thnx everyone! for all ur well wishes... i'll keep them close to my heart :)

last nite i was v excited to receive huay's letter from uk :) thnx alot!
today since there's only debrief.. i decided to go for a swim.. the last time i tried it rained cats n dogs so today i was worried my suay-ness n no-affinity-w-sunshine continues and lo n behold.. it started drizzling once i reached the pool but the rain stopped aft i changed but aft my 10th lap.. it started drizzling q heavily i wasnt sure wat to do but no lifeguard was chasing the swimmers out and pple continued swimming.. i guess coz there was no lightning.. so i decided to cont instead of getting drenched in a pool (i already was) it was the first time i was swimming under such conditions.. the strong wind caused q abit of waves haaa n the turbulence reminded me of my obs days trying to kayak away towards the shore w a thunderstorm closing in n the story of Old man n the sea stuck in my head.. haa but well i swam under the overcast sky tt allowed minimal rays frm the sun in.. those i'm nowhere tanner but aching all over ha.

polyclinic posting has come to an end.
i must say bukit merah had been fun.. i really like the doctors there..
doc wong went thru career options w us and it was q educational..
the other sit-in docs (drs T, N, T) i followed were all really nice pple n i felt tt i've learnt stuff from the consultations..
n nice friendly nurses.. esp the wound nurse standing in for DRP nurse who's away.. i'll sit ard at 730am everymorn n she'll either find the key to open rm 42 for me or invite me to join her in her rm or put me in the breastfeeding rm.. haa to scare other nurses when the walk in seeing me sitting on the sofa wondering wth i was doing in there alone. haa (no baby ard)
food's been nice too.. n the nice cooling aircon is always welcoming.. the hot seat blanks ur mind n cause panic attacks but was a good experience.
community hospital tmr then.

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聽袁惟仁彈吉他 MV – S.H.E.


this is such a cute mtv :D

my first birthday card this yr

omg! it's suppose to look alot like me

the new version of a luohan

haaa check out the dark rings/eye bags! look exactly like my LKY! haaa
thnx girls.. i realli love it haa

today i had great fun :) w the judo girls (as usual) heh
it's a get-together n bdae celebration for me :D
altho attendance was 50% 4/8.. but
haaa dinner at nydc w lotsa chatting n laughing was fun
then we went down to open stage @ timbre.. which was hosted by power 98 djs featuring some local bands.. the music was quite good n the last band which we were listening to before we left was b-quartet
haaa the lead singer had this big white t-shirt n almost botak head tt reminded me of allton
he also had a haunting voice, chimp posture n spirit fingers.. n adam sandler face haaaa
but he sang pretty well i think
we had Heineken Buckets of 5 n calamari! and i'm feeling really full now haaaa
last day of my wkend!...
oh i almost forgot.. we were really lucky to see fireworks tonight! just when we stepped out of city hall mrt.. dunnoe wat's the occassion but to b able to zun zun (cha bee hoon) catch the fireworks tt only lasts a couple of mins w our arrival @ city hall was really luck. pretty!

happy birthday to me.

it's v nice of xunyu to remember my birthday's coming and got me a slice of cake for a present as she wont b in s'pore on the birthday.

thnx alot~! have a safe n fruitful trip!

i would say this week at polyclinic was quite an enjoyable experience. the doctors i've met at bukit merah are all v nice and i must say i'm pretty impressed by all the services that are provided at a polyclinic itself.

literally.. taking care of people, from cradle to grave

the DA n immunisation service rotation got me meeting many kids, which was real fun! i realize the thing i missed most abt paeds posting is the kids. haaa i just like to disturb them and my logbk is proof tt even my GP noticed it haa..

i met many other kids this wk, along trains n in shopping malls.. saw this little girl, prob abt a yr old at long john's silver.. her mummy gave her a fry and she went to dip it into the chilli n stuck it into her mouth.. i saw her facial expression which was realli funny n cute.. she started to frown, and then stuck out her tongue in an attempt to get rid of the spicy taste.. her mum realize i was staring n started laughing and i laughed along. then i met a pair of Dads.. 2 prams got pushed onto the mrt and their kids were roughly the same age then they started chatting sharing their experiences and they seemed v happy.. i used to think tt only mummys do tt

domicillary care was q an experience as well.. visiting patients at their home w the nurses who provided home care.. some of they are single men staying in one room flat w no relatives coming to visit.. it's q sad and we get to go into their place, talk to them.. help him prepare one week worth of pills in a pillbox as his vision is deteriorating. we get to see how pple cope, some are really poor and alone, while others fortunately had strong family support. such is life.

today's geri lecture was alot of fun i think.. this doc who came to talk to us was a real funny guy.. all his jokes are not too bad lor.. haha he taught us abt incontience aids and walking aids and other issuses in geriatrics. tut was abit sleep inducing but not too bad too.

i like kids n elderly pple :) but at the same time geriatric patients makes me feel sad sometimes as well... haiz

wkend is here!

wahh.. sleeping at 9pm daily has caused me to be plagued by nightmares >.<

I know nothing about the beatles.. :P i guess the only song i know by them is Yesterday.. from days of guitar class..

The Beatles - Yesterday


recently when i learnt G major cord from piano class.. got to know this song...
Hey Jude


then this is the newest piano song i'm suppose to learn.. it's q interesting tt i get to know these songs because of music lessons isnt it..
The Beatles - Let It Be (1970)

today marks the end of my GP posting... i guess i could say i have had fun.
our main tutor, Dr L is really a nice man, great example to learn abt communication with the patient i guess, the way he patiently explains to all his patient.. most of them wait up to an hr but they dont seem to mind alot cause they know they still get the same amt of time from him as he doesnt compromise on addressing all his patient's ICE ;)
Dr P is another nice guy.. his comment abt meepok today was damn funny and the way he keeps harping on it haaa.. and he wishes to hear from us via email in one yr's time to ensure tt we got bk to singapore safely haha
KL is the manager who is the funny man.. likes leng xiao hua and steven and 2 other ladies are the clinic assistants and are nurses i think.
Dr L n KL has 4 kids each.. haaa a real good example for singaporeans to have more children haa

So this is the end of my 2 wk GP stint and it isnt terribly exciting or fast paced like A&E but nevertheless u see how a doc can take care of every member of the whole family and know all abt them.. :)

last night i had a great time chilling out w ser n py.. the hungry girls strikes again, w 3 of us eating more than 3 kfc meals haaa and we had tauhuay n nice chai latte at ser's place when we went over... n tan ah bear was as usual so cute and v excited to see us (cause we give off good vibes) and ser's rm looked much neater now haa

fam med writeup here i come!

Holy Sonnet 6, “Death be not proud”

John Donne

Death be not proud, though some have callèd thee

Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,

For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,

Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee;

From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,

Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,

Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.

Thou’art slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,

And poppie,’or charmes can make us sleepe as well,

And better then thy stroake; why swell’st thou then?

One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,

And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die.

E.M. Ashford: Death is a comma. A pause.

today in family medicine tutorial, we were shown this video. my tutor let us watch almost the whole show and i think it was pretty good. For a med student point of view, the setting felt very real, albeit the unkindness of the doctors seemed to be exaggerated abit, cause personally i haven't seen attitudes that are this bad yet. but well i'm sure all kinds of people and all kinds doctors exist.

the show is about death, the topic of the week, we should be learning about as we learn about palliative care. the show brought back some sights, thoughts, smells back to me, from those days some of us volunteered at a hospice in M1 and i think Caleb was the first doctor to introduce the idea of palliative care to some of us. The poety, the sonnets brought me back to lit class with ms Leow too. and in an uncanny way, the nausea n vomiting sounds oh so familiar to myself.

I used to feel that death is just a full stop. simply that. definitely not a semicolon or an exclamation mark. but today i got introduced the idea of death is a but a comma, a pause, a mere transition between this life and after-life. makes it alot less scary and hard doesnt it?

girls nite out.. w siwei n peiyun :) here's a pix of us w a furby-lookalike heh
(at nydc.. the same table we tried to get a shot of janghyuk)
had a good time just chilling n catching up.. did abit of shopping too :)

inherently, i may have some problems to settle with

borrowed this vcd for xiangyun a very long time ago
finally got time last nite to sit down n watched it.. heard it was pretty good when my frens watched it years back..
it's abt a man who told exaggerated stories about his life, all his life.
until his son feels that he doesnt know him at all.
but i guess it's always more interesting and cooler to feel that u have lived ur life in a real imaginative way..
at his funeral, when all those characters of his stories came alive.. well as much of a fact as they were fiction.. it was q overwhelming..
i liked the show, together w all it's color n beauty n imagination...

it brought up an interesting concept about death...
edward says to the witch w tt glass eye that foretells ur death, "I was thinking about death and all, about seeing how you are gonna die. I mean on one hand, if I was to know, it kinda screw you up, but it kinda help, couldn't it? Because everything you know you could survive"

if i was to know how i'm going to die, then i can go ahead n do all the most dangerous things in my life, rite? cause i wont die from it.. haaa but well it doesnt mean i cant become handicapped/disabled.. hmm
but i'll b scared all day trying to avoid tt thing tt caused my death. will i?
oh well, no point pondering over it rite? cause i mean it's pretty hard to find a witch amongst HDB apartments in this time and age, isnt it?

aft watching the show, i googled Matthew McGrory, cause i was wondering how tall he is in real life. i found out tt he once stood at 2.29m tall, cause he had got acromegaly. i also found out tt he passed away in 2005 at the age of 32. pretty sad huh. feels abit too late to find out now, but well hope the big guy RIP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_McGrory#_note-0

well edward bloom is probably a big fish.. can i be a big fish too?

on friday, we had a CG bbq at jianhong's place :)
the things & the pple..

jianhong fans charcoal really well.

dawn's kinda OCD when it comes to opening packaging

dehan making lychee martini..

yingwei w dawn n peiyun

the 3 guys.. has the group dynamics changed aft playing at play?

yw & kx

darren jh dh

us girls & bobdog.. :)

aft bbq we went up to the house n watched identity..

haa i've watched it before but well still got q scared.. but it's a pity alot of stuff got censored, all the gory bits.. so the show feels abit unclear... if they had showed how all of them died.. it wud haf been great

but the ending was still good... :) aft doing psymed huh haaa

- dissociative identity disorder -

it took me q a long time to find this vcd aft a fren recommended me this movie.. :)

spent my whole wkend sleeping again.. no good.

gotta get up n do some work! like now..

on 1st may my family celebrated a be-earli mother's dad n my dad's birthday

haa went to eat at hougang... the food is realli not too bad :)
some of the food we got..

and the fish head pot..

the thing tt i got damn amazed with is the little scoop w a metal bit on the shaft so tt it cud by hung at the side of the pot..

i exclaimed damn loudly n everyone say i v suaku

but this is honestly the first time i saw this invention

v impressed haaa

cg 13 outing on mon nite :)

guess these are the pple i feel really safe with heh

i have zero recollection of what happened last night.
but from wat py told me, it sounded like a horror movie
i'm terribly sorry guys
thnx for everything ya.